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Changes have arrived at the MBTA. Monday is the first real test of their effort to redesign the T’s bus network. Here’s what you need to know.

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The T hopes to also make progress on its bus lines in addition to its subway network.

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It’s not just trains that the MBTA is trying to make faster — the agency also wants to make service on some of the most-traveled bus routes quicker, and Monday is the first real commuter test of the redesigned routes. The goal is to make the busses faster, more frequent and more reliable. It will be done over the course…

This project’s purpose is to improve efficiency and frequency on six bus routes in the areas of East Boston, Chelsea, Somerville, Everett, Malden,  Cambridge, Allston and Brighton.

Some new high tech tools for the T, including tap to pay and a new app, both rolled out in the last few months. Here’s a look at what riders could see next.

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If you take the T, you may have noticed some new high-tech tools during your travels. Riders can now wave a credit card, smartphone, or smartwatch to pay for a trip. It’s officially called, “Tap to Ride” and the MBTA says there have been 7 million taps in the first four months since it debuted. “We’re seeing a tremendous...

NBC10 Boston was the only station invited down inside the final track improvement project of 2024. MBTA General Manager Phil Eng showed us the work being done on the Green Line at Haymarket Station.

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NBC10 Boston was the only station invited down inside the final track improvement project of 2024. MBTA General Manager Phil Eng showed us the work being done on the Green Line at Haymarket Station.

At the end of this month, the MBTA plans to lift the final two slow zones across the system.

There’s a little bit more pain ahead before T riders can hopefully finally have a slow-zone free ride! Friday through December 20 MBTA Green Line service is suspended between Medford/Tufts through Park Street Station. There are replacement shuttles from Medford/Tufts through North Station, and then riders are encouraged to use the Orange Line between North Station and Park Street....

The driver of the car is expected to survive despite the collision with an MBTA commuter rail. 

Officials say the warning signs were working properly, and the driver is expected to be ok. 

A driver is lucky to be alive but she has very serious injuries after her car was hit by a train.  It happened in the middle of the afternoon at a crossing in Abington.  “All of a sudden they hit the airbrake really quick,” said Brian Walters, a passenger on the commuter rail train. “Next thing I knew the...

The MBTA’s Red Line, spanning from Braintree to Cambridge, has resumed full service following track work that has removed the last slow zones on the rapid transit line. Monday marks the first time in at least two decades that the Red Line has been without an active speed restriction, according to an MBTA spokesperson. The recent Red Line service...

The MBTA is headed toward a fiscal cliff and transit advocates say decisions on how to trim the budget need to be made by the end of the year or the outcome will be detrimental for the state. In early 2024, Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order creating the Transportation Funding Task Force, a group of 31 public transit…

More than a third of the entire MBTA subway network was covered by slow zones as of September 2023 — today, less than a mile of slow zones remain, on the Red and Green lines.

The MBTA is headed toward a fiscal cliff and transit advocates say decisions on how to trim the budget need to be made by the end of the year or advocates say the outcome will be detrimental for the state....
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Dubbing persistent debt the “original sin” saddling public transportation, a watchdog group called on Beacon Hill to make debt relief a central part of the next MBTA financial rescue plan. The MBTA Advisory Board, an independent group that represents Massachusetts cities and towns that help fund the T, took a deep dive through the history of public transit in Boston…

A teenager was arrested nearly a week after a shooting on a T platform in Boston, MBTA Transit Police said Friday.

A man was shot on a platform at the Broadway Red Line stop in South Boston.